Stanford University
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Keri Brenner
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioKeri Brenner, MD, MPA is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. As a palliative care physician and psychiatrist, her clinical work includes inpatient palliative care consultations at Stanford. She was inspired to pursue palliative care after serving at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, India on multiple occasions. Dr. Brenner’s scholarly interests and research focus on the psychological elements of palliative care, specifically psychodynamic and existential issues in patients with serious illness. Dr. Brenner completed her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, where she received honors for her thesis on the phenomenology of suffering with terminal illness. She also has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Dr. Brenner completed adult psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and palliative care fellowship at Harvard. She served on the University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees (2005-2008), and was awarded funding through Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019). In her personal life, Dr. Brenner enjoys the beautiful outdoors of Northern California with her husband and four young children.
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Robert Brenner
Lecturer
BioR.B. Brenner is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication. He returned to Stanford in 2018 after four years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a tenured full professor and director of the School of Journalism. He had been a Stanford Lecturer from 2010 to 2014.
His teaching is informed by a three-decade career as a reporter and editor. He held several prominent editing positions at The Washington Post, including Sunday Editor and Metro Editor. He was one of the primary editors of The Post’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and played a leadership role in merging the digital and print newsrooms.
He has been a consultant for two journalism-themed films: “The Post” (2017) and “State of Play” (2009).
A graduate of Oberlin College, R.B. began his reporting career in North Carolina and also worked at newspapers in California and Florida. -
Joan Bresnan
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita
BioAvailable at https://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/
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Cort Breuer
Ph.D. Student in Immunology, admitted Autumn 2022
BioCort Breuer is currently an Immunology PhD student in the lab of Nathan Reticker-Flynn. Cort received his BS in Biological Engineering from Cornell University in 2022, where he studied lymphatic-cancer interactions and T cell mechanosensing in the lab of Esak Lee. Previously, he worked with James Moon at Massachusetts General Hospital to develop in vivo gene therapies for the immune system and with Michelle Krogsgaard at NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center to investigate structural biology of TCR signaling. Cort’s current work focuses on mechanisms of tumor-immune tolerance and decoding the antigen specificity of T cell receptors. Drawing on his engineering background, he designs new molecular tools to record how immune cells communicate and constructs therapeutics to target impaired immune responses.
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William Brewer
Lecturer
BioWilliam Brewer's debut novel The Red Arrow was published by Knopf in 2022. His book of poems, I Know Your Kind, was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, A Public Space, The Sewanee Review, and The Best American Poetry series. Formerly a Stegner Fellow, he is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
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Ryan Charles Leung Brewster
Fellow in Pediatrics - Neonatology
BioRyan Brewster is a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His scholarship focuses on building, scaling, and evaluating technology-enabled models of care delivery, with an emphasis on child health equity. Ongoing initiatives include implementing pediatric home hospital, studying the use of artificial intelligence for medical translation and interpretation, and expanding tele-neonatology services globally. Prior to his clinical fellowship, he was a Harvard HealthTech Fellow and Ariadne Labs Research Fellow. His work has led to over 80 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations that have been featured in Forbes, CNN, STAT News, and the New York Times.
Dr. Brewster completed his residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine) as part of the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track and is a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine (MD) and Middlebury College (BA). -
Brian Christian
Graduate, Stanford Center for Professional Development
BioTaking MS&E 272 and doing GTM at tinyfish.ai
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Vincent L. Briley
Affiliate, SGS Stanford Global Studies
BioVincent L. Briley is a passionate leader and coach in community college education. He currently serves as the Interim Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Montgomery College - Rockville Campus, where he is dedicated to improving student access and outcomes. His extensive career includes administrative and instructional roles at Denison University, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges, and Cuyahoga Community College, with a focus on student success, academic affairs, and community engagement.
Briley has honed his leadership skills through prestigious professional development, including the American Association of Community Colleges’ John E. Roueche Future Leaders Institute and the Peabody Professional Institute of Higher Education Management at Vanderbilt University. A champion of scholarship, he earned fellowships at Stanford University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and multiple Fulbright awards focused on expanding international education.
Committed to his community, Briley volunteers with several local and national organizations and is a passionate musician who has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra. He is drawn to opportunities that allow him to serve institutions where students are central to the mission and vision.
